“eTwinning: innovazione in chiave plurilingue ed europea” held in Nola (Naples – Italy) on the 24th September 2015.The seminar was organised by the Head Teacher of Liceo Carducci and eTwinning ambassador Carmine Iannicelli with the approval of eTwinning National Agency and the Regional Education Offices.

An unexpectedly large number of attendants were drawn to the event, which was successfully advertised on social media platforms and on the Liceo and Regional Education Offices’ websites.

The objective of the seminar was to promote dissemination and implementation of eTwinning projects in the school curriculum. Some of the reports were focused on the Recommendations and Competences as defined by the Ministry of Education

In the morning and in the afternoon a group of students from Liceo (see their namesbelow) was in charge of welcoming participants and assisting with their registration for the event. They provided computer support for online registrations and took photos and videos throughout the day.

All the reports were very interesting and focussed on different crucial aspects of the teaching profession.

USR Campania spokeswoman Paola Guillaro presented “The state of art and eTwinning opportunities in the Campania region”, with a focus on statistic data on the diffusion of eTwinning projects in the Campania region.

In her report: “eTwinning and learning of foreign languages”, eTwinning Ambassador Antonietta Caló presented a few English language projects to promote CLIL methodology in schools.

eTwinning Ambassador Carmine Iannicelli , in his reports “National indications of the first cycle of eTwinning” and “eTwinning and curriculum: key competences and citizenship requirements” emphasised the educational impact of the project and showed how easily it can fit into most traditional teaching methods and programs. The presentation also highlighted National requirements for key competences (2006) and citizenship/visa requirements (2007).

Head Teacher of Liceo Carducci of Nola Assunta Compagnone suggested an educational path on “Mathematics and curricular requirements” underlining a number of issues relating to the teaching of mathematics, such as: changes in the syllabus from 1945 to 2010; mathematic concepts and teaching methods in secondary education; strong points in the national guidelines for mathematics.

Donatella Nucci, Coordinator for the National Unit of eTwinning, participated via video conference from Florence with a presentation on eTwinning: the evolving scenery of the school system”.

Partecipants were invited to share their thoughts and have their questions answered during “QuestionTime”.

After lunch the participants were divided between 4 parallel sessions held by eTwinning Ambassadors. The sessions took place in rooms provided with multimedia interactive whiteboards and in the multimedia laboratory where they could register on eTwinning. Attendees were shown the new eTwinning portal and handed attendance certificates at the end of the workshop.

“This special meeting was held in Nola , in one of the best known colleges of the area called ” Liceo Classico and Scientifico Carducci”, a School Istitution not far from Naples.

“One of the speakers was the Greek and Latin teacher, prof.Carmine Iannicelli, who , as an eTwinning Ambassador, presented the European project to about 80 colleagues, all coming from other school Institutions of the region Campania . This eTwining event was meant to highlight the strategic value of the eTwinning activities such as the school exchanges, or just the school project-work sharing among the European School Institutions that one can contact on the new eTwinning platform . Basically the eTwinning project must be seen as a means to achieve new learning goals for students of all levels because those activities will provide them with different , more challenging learning environments; they will make the students use new abilities with the learning by doing actvities. This approach , in fact, has proved to produce much more satisfactory and fulfilling results.

In conclusion, Prof.re Iannicelli added, the eTwinning project mirrors some of the latest revolutionary scientific views regarding the teachers’ assessing task, which should be an updated , in-progress activity, i.e., the result of the observation of the students’ real learning-by- doing target. So, from the educational points of view, the eTwiniing multi-task project seem to be really perfect.“